When fate gave gentleman planter Rip Stewart three daughters, instead of the sons he'd planned on, he gave the girls men's names and went ahead and raised them just as he would boys. The eldest, Sloan, would run the ranch; Bayleigh would be her sister's second-in-command; and Creighton (Cricket), the youngest, would be the indulged child of his heart. By the time the girls are heading toward the end of their teens, Rip discovers his plan has been all too successful. His precious Cricket is running wild, and his plan to marry her off to a man who'll settle her down doesn't sit well with her at all. But it's out of the frying pan and into the campfire for Cricket, when her efforts to protect her family lead her to play the part of dutiful wife to Texas Ranger Jarrett Creed. And that's when free-spirited tomboy Cricket finds out just how wonderful being a woman can be.